Vivien Horvath from Lund University in Sweden presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Boston. The title of the session was “Studying disease-causing polymorphic transposable element insertions using nanopore sequencing.” They work on X-linked Dystonia-Parkisonism (XDP), an adult-onset neurogenerative disorder. Interestingly, it affects mostly males from Panay, Philippines, and is characterized by neuronal cell loss […]